‘Software’ Archives
Google Chrome for Mac and Linux Out of Beta
That's right, folks. Google just announced that Chrome for Mac and Linux is out of beta. They feel they've squashed enough bugs to get it up to snuff with the Windows version and have released it as of today. Google is also touting its speed increases with the latest version for all three platforms. Since the first beta, they've increased [...]
Skype for Linux 2.1 Beta 2
Skype has announced a new beta for their Linux client. Linux doesn't see many updates from them, but when they come out, they're usually pretty significant. Of note in this release: Screen Sharing Quote a message in chat UI Styling There are apparently still some audio bugs in this otherwise nice Linux client. Let me know what you think.
TomTom for iPhone is Here
Quite a few people have been waiting on this one. TomTom has finally delivered a $100 app for the iPhone, giving users real-time GPS navigation, right on their iPhone. So far, people seem to like it pretty well. If I didn't already have a cheap, $100 TomTom One device, I'd consider buying this app. The only thing the app offers that my unit [...]
Google Wave
On May 28, Google unveiled their newest product, called Wave. I just finished watching the nearly 1 1/2 hour demo video from the Google IO event, and was impressed. Google has rolled email, instant messaging and online collaboration of documents into one nice package. This brief description doesn't give Wave justice, so following is a little bit [...]
WordPress 2.7 Released
It was announced last Thursday, December 11, that WordPress 2.7 has finally been released to the wild. This is by and large a feature release and has nothing to do with bug fixes and the like. Anyone using WordPress will immediately notice a huge difference in the administrative area. Rather than try to explain everything in detail here, [...]
Google’s Lively Being Shut Down
Google has announced that it is shutting down it's 3D Virtual World service known simply as Lively. Apparrently it just hasn't taken off quite like they thought it would, and they want to refocus their time and effort on their core search, ads and apps business. I logged into Lively a couple of times to see what it was all about, but I [...]
Songbird – iTunes Killer?
I'm sure by now a lot of you have heard of Songbird. Songbird is Mozilla's music player - it is open source and under active development. It is currently at version 0.7.0, but there is a 1.0 Release Candidate available for download as well. In a nutshell, here are the biggest features offered by Songbird, apart from the obvious fact that it [...]
ZoneAlarm Pro is Free (Today Only)
ZoneAlarm, who makes one of the most popular personal firewall products on the market, has made their professional firewall product available for free today. You can go grab it here, any time between 9am today (November 18, 2008, Eastern time) and 9am tomorrow. I was able to get my copy, and a serial number. But it took me a couple of tries [...]
